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Auction archive: Lot number 17

DAS LETZTE STUCK BROT. Circa 1970

Modernist Posters
5 May 2003
Estimate
US$1,200 - US$1,800
Price realised:
US$1,150
Auction archive: Lot number 17

DAS LETZTE STUCK BROT. Circa 1970

Modernist Posters
5 May 2003
Estimate
US$1,200 - US$1,800
Price realised:
US$1,150
Beschreibung:

DAS LETZTE STUCK BROT. Circa 1970. 361/4x247/8 inches. Condition B: trimmed at edges; minor restoration along vertical and horizontal folds; overpainting in corners; minor restoration in image. "Capitalizm is robbing them of their last piece of bread. Fight for yourself and your children. Vote Communist! Vote Thalmann!" Another icon, oringinally printed in 1932, in Heartfield's pantheon of pro-Communist propaganda. Although less of a photomontage than the previous lot, this image gets its effectiveness from the sympathetic photo and accompanying text. From the same series of reproductions as the previous lot. Heartfield cat. no 226, Berman p. 166 pl 97.

Auction archive: Lot number 17
Auction:
Datum:
5 May 2003
Auction house:
Swann Galleries, Inc.
104 East 25th Street
New York, NY 10010
United States
swann@swanngalleries.com
+1 (0)212 2544710
+1 (0)212 9791017
Beschreibung:

DAS LETZTE STUCK BROT. Circa 1970. 361/4x247/8 inches. Condition B: trimmed at edges; minor restoration along vertical and horizontal folds; overpainting in corners; minor restoration in image. "Capitalizm is robbing them of their last piece of bread. Fight for yourself and your children. Vote Communist! Vote Thalmann!" Another icon, oringinally printed in 1932, in Heartfield's pantheon of pro-Communist propaganda. Although less of a photomontage than the previous lot, this image gets its effectiveness from the sympathetic photo and accompanying text. From the same series of reproductions as the previous lot. Heartfield cat. no 226, Berman p. 166 pl 97.

Auction archive: Lot number 17
Auction:
Datum:
5 May 2003
Auction house:
Swann Galleries, Inc.
104 East 25th Street
New York, NY 10010
United States
swann@swanngalleries.com
+1 (0)212 2544710
+1 (0)212 9791017
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